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tracy g we got a national treasure on
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the toe with us today ladies and
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gentlemen
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we got a national treasure on the show
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with us today
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not just the vanguard not just a pioneer
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he's a culture keeper
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ladies and gentlemen he's the voice of
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the dmv in the atl
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areas broadcast journalism staple
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[Applause]
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he did it before you was born and still
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doing it better than you doing it now
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that you're here
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my good friend ladies and gentlemen my
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parallel
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we've been doing this for a long time
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and every time i see him i'm happy and i
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love the fact that he keep that mic in
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his hand he ain't gonna let go that
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mc and the one and only big tigger is
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joining us today
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[Applause]
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106 in park rap city you name it he's
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done it
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come on he's wrapped with some of the
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biggest names from method man to red man
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they're too short to pete rock come on
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don't stop me tigger don't stop me
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pgc wpgc owe you stock ticket they owe
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you money
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that's facts
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bt better keep hey hey go b-e-t gotta
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keep hiring you
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they owe you money
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[Laughter]
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the atlanta hawks know what it is they
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paying you money give it up for the one
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and only big tigger big tigger
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they all only
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[Music]
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[Applause]
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[Music]
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no check this out man i was thinking
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about it i was thinking about it first
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of all big tigger is his citizens call
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up
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[Applause]
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888-742-3345
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you talk about a career that ranges over
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two decades and he's been sustaining on
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the top
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ever since i've seen the cars i've seen
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the houses
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he's doing really well
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[Laughter]
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let me let me say this for the record
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big tigger
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is um hosting is the host on season four
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the celebrity racing series
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it's called lexus zero to sixty um
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and where can people find that tigger
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uh it's available on the lexus youtube
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page uh it's been viral this is the
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fourth season i've had hosted the last
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three
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uh it's a lot of fun it's to break it
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down and make it simple it's a celebrity
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car driving skills champion like it's
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like a
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like a six celebrities battling for who
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can drive these amazing lexus cars
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and they have these different skills
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challenge and if you win you win money
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for your charity and
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a free lexus for a year so it's kind of
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like a win-win
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all right man i thought you got a lease
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all right um
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and that's on the
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y'all check that out also man this is
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the host of the morning culture with big
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tigger man i tune in to you guys i love
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watching you on
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instagram and congratulations on the
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morning culture man how long you've been
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doing that on v103 now
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i started by myself little old me in
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august last year
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i incorporated my two new co-hosts tyler
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chronicles the miss basketball
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on december uh in which case we have to
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kind of get back in the room together
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you know as you well know building
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chemistry uh from from
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zero you kind of need to be in the same
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space after y'all got it
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y'all can separate and then form up like
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voltron and do it in different
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areas so we they kind of created a space
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for us inside the station that was not
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only socially distanced
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but also had good ventilation so we
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could stay cootie free
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but it's been it's been a lot of fun you
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know not only uh waking up the city of
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atlanta
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uh but bringing them the sights and fans
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and you know it's all entertainment so
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we try to keep them educated uh we try
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to keep them stimulated
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and help them you know start their day
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off properly hey man
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let me ask you this and you guys do a
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great job atlanta is lucky to have you
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guys in there and you guys are lucky to
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be in atlanta
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but where did you first start in radio
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like who taught you radio
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i first started as a lonely intern in
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washington dc at 95 wptc 95.5
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uh one of the primary uh people was alby
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d
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uh people from dc were like alby d was
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was it at nighttime radio um but i came
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up
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my my tutelage was albede first and
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foremost
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jay stephens as a program director i had
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dr
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dave who's the voice of like almost all
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of american radio
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uh for you know as an apd and i had
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donnie simpson in mornings
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so i had like a a great you know a
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varied experience with all different
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kinds of people like oh you could do
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this or you could do that
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so i got a lot of different gems and
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nuggets uh from donny
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jason dr dave uh and alby d
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uh and then i just tried to you know
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keep you know and you know taking these
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nuggets and
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and jasting them and spitting back out
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without what i thought you know who
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me authentically was i've had some great
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mentors along the way
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donnie simpson salute to donny simpson
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man donnie simpson is someone that
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i may have met in passing tigger but i
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never really had a
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one a real sit-down conversation with
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him we were inducted into the radio hall
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of fame this year in the same class and
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congratulations
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thank you man i appreciate you brother
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and it's because of donnie simpson
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you know what i mean like i don't talk
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about it man cause
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speak on it donny taught me one of my
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best lessons
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in business uh and i think it was that
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like you know your first radio contract
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ain't really
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throughout my career the entire time
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donnie said
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know your worth and then he broke it
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down further
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it's not just saying here's what i think
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i'm worth
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it's also about knowing your leverage in
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any particular
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uh situation being able to apply
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it and and then manage it like saying
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okay
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this is what i think i'm work right i
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know it's worth
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this to you and at the same time is all
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clearly somebody who might be almost as
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good as me that to do with the chief
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but you ain't gonna get the same as you
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get from me so you get what you pay for
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and it's helped me to negotiate and
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navigate my entire career
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being able to say no when it ain't right
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being able to say oh i might take less
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because the look is better
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being able to you know navigate
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different yeses and those
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there's so many no's and things that
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could have happened but they
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just wasn't right financially or they
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wasn't right for the brand
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and that had to all come back to what
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donny taught me
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the truth of knowing your work
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can you speak on what up some what up
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bro some examples
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of leverage is it like um the first
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thing that comes to my mind can be
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your network you know what i mean
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certain people will not do interviews
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here
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unless i'm the one conducting it that
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could be a form of leverage
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another one might be your social media
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presence you know
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what are different examples of
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leveraging your instance
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today i guess the most prevalent and
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easy example is your social media impact
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there are lots of people
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for better or for worse who get lots of
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opportunities
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because of their social media presence
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uh um outside of that that those are
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like that's the most easy example
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outside of that uh leverage would be uh
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let's let's just take
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a big big brother hole who just sold
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fifty percent
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of ace of spades you know whenever he
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invested his money into owning that
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brand it was you know
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he was just building just building i
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have ownership
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now his leverage he could give up 50 of
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it and make it a bigger deal
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uh you know what i'm saying like now
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it's the thing it was already a thing
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but now it's under that
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umbrella louis vuitton moet hennessey
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which i think is an unfair
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company all together like how you gonna
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have louis vuitton
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that's too much leverage
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of spades listen that is the greatest uh
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christmas gift box never created yet
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ace of spades like somebody please make
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it and send it to your boy
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i mean leverage is literally
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knowing you know and another example of
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leverage
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let's just say in entertainment is let's
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take um
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like the weekend you know like in the
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super bowl before me
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everybody kept saying how he spent all
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this extra money on the performance
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but his streams went up 600 700
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afterwards he didn't get paid for the
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super bowl but he got paid for the super
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bowl
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you know what i'm saying right and and
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being able to say hey i was one of the
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elite few
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uh to have a super bowl performance at
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halftime
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and i ain't even bring nobody out like
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you know
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you know whether you liked it or not is
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a different conversation but
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being able to say that you had enough
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material to to do a whole super bowl
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performance without bringing nobody out
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kind of said something as well so
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leverage can be used in lots of
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different ways and knowing how and when
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to apply it
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what your worth is and what it means to
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whatever situation
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is the definition of using your leverage
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okay big tigger is here man
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obviously we're not going to cover
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everything we need to cover in 10
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minutes
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10 more minutes uh but uh you and i i
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definitely feel like we should just get
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together and swap old war stories
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but
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[Laughter]
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you know we can we got em boy i'll open
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up with you documentary all in
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itself all in itself man but i want to
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put the spotlight on certain people who
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who were pivotal pivotal in your career
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and
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and your success keith paschall
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wow keep that and so i was
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basically just i had first gotten how i
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got my foot in the door at bts i was
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just doing voiceovers they needed a
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younger handed boys for like team summit
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so i would literally go down there once
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a week and read liners like kingston
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it's been brought to you by snickers
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hungry why wait but they just needed the
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younger voice to be
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you know the other voice and while i was
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down there i just kept harassing
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everybody like don't y'all need me on
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camera don't you need to put a tiger on
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and keith was the first person that was
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like look we got an opportunity
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we got a segment we were trying to start
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it's called hip hop news
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it's gonna be like 60 seconds to two
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minutes and one day a week
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are you interested my answer absolutely
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you know what i'm saying so he was the
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first person that gave me an opportunity
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down at dep
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to to grow and then as i became the
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third host of rap city and did lots of
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different things with keith fashion
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he was instrumental in helping me grow
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as an on-camera personality
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uh i learned a lot i've never taken a
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class in radio television to film
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everything that i learned in radio i
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learned about the job
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everything i learned in television i
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learned on the job so shout out to keith
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fashion for not only giving me an
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opportunity
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to to become uh you know rap city
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alumni but he saw he saw he saw the
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potential and gave me that shot
12:04
he gave you that first shot to be on
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camera
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that's what i wanted to bring him up
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because arnold mckeith also brought rap
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city to
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la and they did the world they did the
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wake up show with me and keen tech and
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we had
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crook at that time he was known as
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crooked eye and chino excel
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both spit likes crazy bars and you guys
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put it on right
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on on tv now you you was the third host
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you had big legs you had joe claire do
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you
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do you still communicate with them i do
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joe's in dc currently do a morning to
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wpgc lessons out on the west coast
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i regularly touch down with them um
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you know like of all the rap city alumni
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you know because not only did i grow up
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with
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joe and les watching them before i
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became a host
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you know they also gave me nuggets and
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hosting i learned stuff from
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from joe and les on how to be a
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personality
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interviewing different people managing
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energy etc etc
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so of the of all the hosts those who
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were definitely very helpful and you
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know me i was just
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look i'm just happy to be here
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[Laughter]
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i was just happy to be on television and
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i learned a lot from them watching them
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being around now and we've not only uh
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maintained the friendship like we stay
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in i can't say we're saying
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everyday touch but we definitely keep
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tabs on each other
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ticket let me ask you this because
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you're being really humble with it and
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and i get it
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uh but rap city uh the basement
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you know people in the booth you know
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these are really
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like benchmarks in hip-hop history
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yeah that you that you help steer that
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you helped drive
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like you cemented your place in this
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culture
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um just from the amount of people that
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were discovered because of rap city the
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basement and
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the people that went in the booth the
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whole nine and elevated the culture on
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the on
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a mainstream way bro how do you how do
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you
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see yourself in all of this what do you
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think how do you see your legacy so far
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and every with everything you did and
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still doing in the culture in the
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business
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uh i am extremely proud it's one of the
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most things i am most proud of in my
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life
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that i left that show in 2006
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and 15 years later people are asking me
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daily can we bring it back
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uh that to me uh running into different
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artists
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of different age groups you know like
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new artists to actors to uh you know
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there's all different walks of life
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people would be like yo
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son four o'clock i used to rush home to
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watch the show like
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it is really i can't i can't i can't
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express to people how much that really
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means to me
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uh from a pride standpoint to to
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when people say yo you're a legend be
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you're part of the fabric of hip-hop
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and if i didn't do anything else uh
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afterwards or you know from here on out
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i i'm i'm kind of cool with that you
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know because i
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i did it not you know not expecting it
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to do what it did
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uh but i think the authenticity of it
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you know being a young
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kid from the bronx that grew up beat
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boxing dj break dancing
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and rhyming on the corner in co-op city
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you know having
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you know literally growing up hip-hop uh
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gave me an opportunity to present it to
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the country
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in an authentic way and it was well
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received and i listen
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i'm just proud of the fact that again
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here we are 15 years after i
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left the show people like yo i'm saying
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can we get that back
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yeah i'm equally proud like last year
15:53
out of nowhere russ calls and was like
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yo
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i got this song i need you i need to
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recreate the basement for it
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it's me and ab soul and then i was like
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i
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after i heard the song i was like it's
16:06
an authentic song it makes sense
16:08
you know me to fly out there and we
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shoot the video and he's like yo
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can you give us a verse for the video i
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just need that authentic feel because
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we're not getting the big so i literally
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freaked out the verse was beginner
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uh so i mean again the appreciation and
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respect that
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rap city and rap city the basement uh
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has garnered over the you know over the
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years and made me immensely proud so
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uh if there's ever a time where i'll be
16:34
like y'all can't see this rap city
16:36
yeah yeah that's that's the one moment
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where i just for one moment
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yeah man i wanna we gonna talk about
16:41
that even deeper down the line because
16:45
yeah don't go ahead bizzle oh tigger
16:47
what's up hey it's heather how you doing
16:49
what up nothing what's up i got a quick
16:52
question for you
16:53
so i'm listening to you talking the way
16:56
like sway is just running down your
16:57
history and your legacy in the game and
16:59
and we all know we we we've had these
17:01
conversations
17:02
a lot amongst our peers it's one thing
17:04
to jump into television
17:06
and even if you don't love it love it
17:08
love it sometimes the financial side of
17:10
it could be so great
17:11
that you'll just get up and do it anyway
17:13
because you know you catching a check
17:16
but with radio that's the only way you
17:18
can put it but with radio
17:20
it's different it's a different kind of
17:22
grind like people don't understand it
17:24
in particular with morning radio it's
17:26
different you have to
17:27
keep finding inspiration you have to
17:29
keep getting up and getting the grind
17:31
and getting people
17:32
set for the day what keeps you going in
17:34
terms of morning radio like
17:36
why why have you stayed in in radio
17:39
for so long
17:48
which makes my 27th viewing radio
17:51
yeah oh uh it's been
17:55
people that again y'all know me the
17:57
whole the whole way
17:59
um y'all know me the whole way and i
18:01
i've been
18:02
extremely blessed that people have
18:04
messed with you know like mess with me
18:05
at my core i haven't had the really
18:07
i've evolved i can't say that i've
18:09
reinvented myself i kind of been me the
18:11
whole way
18:12
which is a blessing that people still uh
18:15
you know can identify with that across
18:17
the generations across the time period
18:19
and i'm
18:20
you know we still popping in 21. um
18:24
the answer the answer is is getting
18:26
morning radio and particularly as i know
18:28
y'all can attest to you get up at an
18:30
ungodly hour
18:31
you have to get yourself situated and
18:33
you're delivering you know
18:35
the beauty of morning radio is you
18:37
literally can set the tone
18:39
or adjust the tone for somebody's entire
18:41
day
18:42
that morning something you talk about
18:44
you can either give
18:45
inspiration or somebody could be having
18:47
a horrible morning
18:49
a horrible morning and you get them to
18:51
laugh at something or reminisce about
18:52
something that puts them in a better
18:53
mind frame and a better space uh as well
18:56
as if you know playing their favorite
18:57
song or they hear their favorite artist
18:59
and you literally have the opportunity
19:01
to set the tone for uh
19:02
somebody's whole morning like their
19:05
whole day
19:06
and that's kind of the gratification
19:07
point about radios the instant
19:09
gratification you get to talk to people
19:11
on the phone
19:12
you get to you know interact with them
19:14
television is not as interactive
19:16
in most cases um you know like nowadays
19:20
you could probably
19:20
be more interactive via social media
19:23
through television
19:24
but with radio you literally like can
19:26
say something people can call you right
19:28
now and you can talk about it you can go
19:30
back and forth you have dialogue
19:31
and again that immediate uh that that
19:34
part of it
19:35
is is is an amazing part uh but for me
19:38
the the the fact that literally i've had
19:40
people like you i was having a real
19:42
whack morning and you said blaspheme you
19:44
played blasphemy
19:46
well you talked about something that
19:47
gave me a different perspective and
19:48
changed the direction of my morning
19:50
that's that's immensely gratifying big
19:53
ticket
19:53
big ticket ladies and gentlemen big
19:56
tigger
19:57
hey tigger
20:01
where would you rank where would you
20:02
rank yourself on your
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your top 10 list of mc's
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[Music]
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[Laughter]
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i'm joking with you bro look
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not in the top
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[Laughter]
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you played that michael jordan thing
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which i i literally recently
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rediscovered myself i was really after i
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listened to it again and i'm like damn
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this is all but i kind of was i kind of
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did what i was supposed to do on it
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uh i i'm confident in my abilities i
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have fun
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yeah but as far as the best ever now i
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ain't on my top tier
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okay man i'm glad you took that question
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seriously too man
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that's the mc in you hold up we got
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james on the line from new york grand
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rises james
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james what's good grand rising
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z have to be swaying big tickets i can't
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believe
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can't believe i'm chatting to you guys
21:03
it's great i'm
21:04
actually at work right now all right
21:06
once i love you guys
21:08
and obsessed with my man big figure i
21:09
wish they would bring you back whistling
21:11
would bring back rashid to the basement
21:12
man i'm sorry that soul is legendary
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from my time
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i mean i'm 29 but i have an old soul and
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i was seeing you in the booth
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um with all these famous rappers um
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i wanted to know two questions one how
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did you feel every time you had to
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freestyle with them were you nervous
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or were you like i got this and my
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second question was how did you
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try to get started in the radio industry
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for someone who has a communications
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degree okay part one
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uh there were times where i was
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in a good way nervous because in some of
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these instances i'm going in the booth
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with somebody
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like some icons like namaste
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who made you nervous
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[Applause]
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soft money uh me and ludacris had three
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of the
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best booths back and fourth month i went
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with snoop dogg
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like you have all of these people like
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you like i'm like i've
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i've been in there with rock cam krs one
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like i've been like you like you saw i'm
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thinking about i'm like oh my god like
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these are the these
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you know what i'm saying these are those
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people ll cool you know like so i'm like
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those type of people for me i'm like oh
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all right hold up let me get some life
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let me make sure oh
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but i was always excited uh and then
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there were times just to keep it 100
22:31
there were some people who i might not
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have um
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believed in who might have had a bigger
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target on their back and i was like
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they're gonna have to prove it to me and
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these 72 million viewers
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right now uh something there were
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instances where people you know
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i might have went a little harder than
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usual
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just because i was like okay i know i
22:49
could do and you got a record deal so
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let me see what let me see what it is
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uh but again everyone has their favorite
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booth from
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cameron to lil wayne to you know
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i mean there's so many different one of
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my favorites is rap city the bashment
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with bujubanta
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an elephant man with bobby condors on
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the track like that was
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amazing that thing is still big in the
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island
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uh so to answer part one they were uh
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i was nervous but it was good nervous
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energy
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if if you don't get nervous sometimes
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then you're not really alive it should
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make you nervous that could you
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have to show up and compete and show out
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like there should be a point of pride
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with you no matter what you do
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that you have to be you know like am i
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going to do my best so
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uh as far as being in radio um
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there's no direct pass there's lots of
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different uh
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opportunities out here there's integra
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uh uh i'm sorry internet radio
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uh if you're lucky enough to get a sway
23:47
check you could be on
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and then there's what we call
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terrestrial radio which is the radio
23:54
stations we all grew up with
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a little harder to get in terrestrial
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radio without uh any experience but i
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i always tell people the internet has
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provided lots of opportunities for lots
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of different people
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to practice for free whatever you intend
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to do
24:10
so if you can get on an internet radio
24:11
station or if you just practice
24:13
doing it streaming live on your
24:14
instagram those are ins those
24:17
uh instances where you can practice
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where when we grew up you either had to
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get in or you couldn't get in
24:23
um so i i encourage people to use those
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if you're a mass comm major
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find somebody uh in mass con who wants
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to do production work who needs to work
24:31
on their production work
24:32
find somebody who needs to work on
24:34
camera work and y'all all squad up and
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come up with a product where you get to
24:38
practice your radio personality work
24:40
somebody gets to product
24:42
prep practice their production and y'all
24:45
all get better as a group
24:47
you may not stay together as a group but
24:48
y'all in together that that networking
24:50
will help you all grow
24:52
that's a great answer james thank you
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for your call man i hope you took notes
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man your citizens
24:57
let's play in the morning all right kirk
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kirkman what up kurt curtis
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hey hey man big chicken you've been
25:08
doing your thing for a long time man
25:10
i just want to direct congratulate you
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man you know
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growing up on the rap city uh the
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basement
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you know i used to rush home from middle
25:18
school just to watch it
25:21
hey man i ain't even i couldn't even
25:23
afford cable my mother was single
25:24
i mean we had to go to a neighbor's crib
25:26
and go watch it you know that
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that's how i really had that passion
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into um
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the way you really changed the game as a
25:35
host
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the way local artists were kind of being
25:38
put out
25:39
brought out you know i still to this day
25:42
my favorite uh
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basement was uh jay-z and gucci mac
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you know how they uh when they perform i
25:49
still repeat that on
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youtube every day every single day right
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there
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i appreciate that every day yes yeah man
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we we met big tigger um we met though uh
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battle of the bands a couple of years
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ago
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you know when the world was opened up
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but everything was going on
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yeah yeah man um you're just humble
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you're a humble guy that's all i wanted
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to say that
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hey kurt check out his latest on the uh
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lexus youtube channel
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okay lex is zero to 60. i do that for
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him
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chicken man uh tur you're a citizen good
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morning
26:26
we we bump into each other in the
26:27
craziest places and it is always
26:30
it's just it's always special i bro
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where were we
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when were we in canada at a music
26:38
festival or something
26:39
and we you know um carabana maybe
26:43
yeah ticket was just walking in the
26:45
street by himself
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i'm like
26:56
[Laughter]
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time tracy you was asking him about
27:07
leverage
27:08
i'm gonna give you an example leverage
27:10
we bumped into each other at the airport
27:13
i don't know where we would come it
27:15
might have been super i don't know where
27:16
we were coming from but uh we
27:18
ended up at this little look like a
27:20
bagel shop or something and i ended up
27:22
treating it
27:23
i wouldn't let ticket pay for his food
27:25
right
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because he showed me a picture of his
27:28
house and i was like i gotta get over
27:30
there let me pay
27:34
yo you just got the house i was like oh
27:36
let me at least pay for the food
27:38
[Laughter]
27:42
now you got to pay for it you can buy it
27:44
now you got to keep it
27:45
you got to get it that's what's up man
27:48
hey listen bro um i definitely would
27:50
love to sit and talk with you
27:51
and and let's definitely sit down one
27:54
day and tell old war stories
27:56
and document that two quick things right
27:59
quick
27:59
again the lexus zero to 60 show season
28:02
one
28:03
excuse me two through four but more
28:04
recently season four at the lexus
28:07
youtube page and shout out to i think it
28:08
was kirk who brought up youtube
28:11
uh i have no stake in youtube but i have
28:13
to thank you to
28:15
youtube has helped me
28:18
stay viable this whole way with whoever
28:22
whomever is keeps putting up these
28:24
booths because people keep going and see
28:26
it people keep asking for rap city to
28:28
come back
28:30
and the last thing i'll say is people
28:33
ever ask will it come back
28:34
it will never come back exactly the way
28:37
you had it
28:38
but there are lots of conversations for
28:40
it to return
28:41
in some form or fashion uh whether it be
28:43
on that network or
28:45
another network so keep your fingers
28:47
crossed
28:48
stay in tune with your boy and hopefully
28:50
we can bring you something
28:51
uh that feels good and represents the
28:54
culture appropriately
28:56
before the end of 21. there it is man
28:58
big ticket man
28:59
national treasure brother love you
29:01
family keep shining okay
29:03
my man give it up for me picking it up
29:06
for big ticket man
29:08
all right we got adam richmond okay
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okay
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you
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